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Item Yellow Songs(Wayne State University Press, 2013) Tomberlin, CetoriaPoem published in volume 9 (2013) of Fairy Tale Review.Item Expand Your Collection Horizons with Negotiation Skill Development to Address Today and Tomorrow’s Challenges(Michigan Publishing Services, 2025-11) Macy, Katharine V.Learning negotiation skills allows library workers and vendors to have more productive conversations that create more options. This allows libraries to better meet their stakeholder needs while fostering a sustainable relationship with resource vendors. However, this is a skill set that is largely learned while on the job, or through continuing education opportunities that may be costly, and may not be library focused. In addition, many library workers feel anxiety around the process of negotiations. The IMLS funded ONEAL Project (Open Negotiation for Academic Libraries) wishes to empower library workers through an open online curriculum to teach these skills. This session introduced the Foundations learning module launched in April 2024 as well as the brand-new Strategies module launching in early 2025 which dives deeper into strategies (setting priorities, internal stakeholder management, and contracts & licensing strategy). Library licensing rarely keeps up with technology and new directions in research, for which the project is developing modules to help address current hot topics, such as artificial intelligence and privacy/surveillance. Attendees were provided with a list of available resources to support learning about negotiating hot topics. This session provided opportunities for discussion, including allowing the audience to share their own experiences around negotiations and what they find most challenging. Negotiation skill best practices introduced in the curriculum are widely applicable to all types of libraries. Video of presentation available at: https://youtu.be/Xy7NJAQaaXo?si=TpBS5RG0ZD07sN7tItem Tracking 10 Years of On-Demand Services(2025-11-10) Petsche, Kevin; Tomberlin, CetoriaFor the past decade or so libraries have been looking for alternative acquisition models, one of which is to move toward on-demand purchasing, which orders resources when prompted by patrons who are faculty, staff, or students. On-demand requires rush processing to speed up acquisition and availability, providing resources in a timely manner. This has resulted in significant changes that affect both patrons and library workers. This presentation is going to provide an examination of making such a change in an academic library's resource acquisition and access model over the past decade. First, the presentation will reflect on changes to workflows. Second, this presentation will discuss the additional support around outreach and collection assessment required for a shift in the model. The presentation will then share analysis on the impact on patron use and attitudes around library collection services before discussing the fiscal impact of the change in model for the library's budget. Attendees will walk away with key insights into the potential impact of making such a shift to an on-demand acquisitions model, including potential challenges they may face. This presentation shows originality in that it provides a programmatic assessment of moving to on-demand acquisitions over a long period of time (10 years). Our library transitioned to on-demand for article acquisitions in 2015, for journals with lower use. Audio Visual efforts began in 2016. We piloted books on demand in Fall 2018 for some subject areas, expanding library-wide in 2019.Item Analysis of On-Demand Service Model: A 10 Year Review(2025-11-05) Petsche, Kevin; Tomberlin, CetoriaIn recent years libraries have been exploring on-demand purchasing, which is an alternative acquisition model that orders resources when prompted by library patrons. On-demand requires rush processing to speed up acquisition and availability to ensure resources are provided in a timely manner. This has resulted in significant changes that affect both patrons and library workers. This poster presentation will provide an examination of making such a change in an academic library’s resource acquisition and access model over the past decade. The presentation will reflect on changes to workflows, discuss the additional support around outreach and collection assessment required for a shift in the model, share analysis on the impact on patron use and attitudes around library collection services before discussing the fiscal impact of the change in model for the library’s budget, and delve into our findings regarding circulation and use statistics of requested resources. Our poster presentation will use our own library’s journey with shifting our acquisitions model to on-demand. This conversion begins in 2015 when we began using on-demand vendors to purchase articles directory for journals with lower use. In 2016 our audio-visual efforts began and in Fall 2018 we piloted our books on demand program for some subject areas. In 2019 we expanded our books on demand program, making it library-wide.Item Experiences & Advice from the Institutional Perspective of a Consortium-Based Digital Collection Management System Migration(2025-11-19) Miller, EvanSystem migrations take time and energy; however, this is not always the reality for institutions, especially with consortium-supported systems. Sharing takeaways and practical examples from a digital collection management system migration, the presenter will discuss how an archives can assess its collections and remediate metadata efficiently and effectively under a prescribed timeline.Item Will Paying Students To Edit result in More Wikipedians?(2025-10-19) Mzumara, Tapiwa; MacIsaac, Olivia; Odell, Jere D.At Indiana University Indianapolis the University Library hires students as “Wikipedia and Digital Content Specialists” to edit Wikipedia. The students write or contribute to entries related to the central Indiana community where the university is located. The student Wikimedians use the WikiEdu modules to learn to edit and also receive troubleshooting support from peers and academic librarians. After developing a baseline of skills, the students choose from a list of topics and tasks that align with their personal interests. Altogether, the library student employees have created 44 entries and contributed 8,520 edits in less than three years. They have also enjoyed “going down the rabbit hole” and exploring the many quirks of Wikipedia. But what will happen when they graduate or leave the job? This presentation reports on an evaluation of the outcomes of student engagement as it relates to Wikipedia participation during and after being a paid editor. If students are paid to edit, will they choose to continue to engage with Wikipedia? If so, how? What would motivate the students to continue after graduation? This evaluation uses a semi-structured interview format to solicit the opinions of current and former Wikipedia and Digital Content Specialists at IU Indianapolis.Item The Power of Storytelling: Using Narratives to Build An Open Education Movement(2025-10-28) McMurray, KhrismaIf you want to strengthen your campus OER movement and build lasting partnerships, start with a story. We often lead with facts and figures to justify the value of Open Education but the real spark for change happens when people hear the stories behind the numbers. This session explores how storytelling can be used as a powerful tool to build momentum, cultivate institutional buy-in, and move OER initiatives from awareness to action. Drawing on the planning and execution of a campus-wide OER Week, this session centers the use of narrative to humanize open education work. We’ll examine how highlighting faculty experiences, student voices, and community-centered wins helped shift perceptions of OER from a budget solution to a transformative educational practice. Whether you’re trying to gain leadership support, inspire hesitant faculty, or empower student advocates, stories put a face to the movement and make the mission resonate.Item Migration, Metadata, & Remediation(2025-10-17) Miller, EvanPresentation given at the Society of Indiana Archivists (SIA) Fall Workshop on Friday, October 17, 2025. The event's theme was "Migratory Patterns of Metadata: A Practical Exploration of Software Evaluation, Migration, and Implementation." The presentation discussed migrating digital collection management systems, specifically from OCLC's CONTENTdm to the open-source Hyku by Samvera, and included sections covering the projects' backgrounds, a system migration workflow, metadata assessment, and metadata remediation workflows.Item PIDs, Wikidata, and Notability on Wikipedia(2025-10) MacIsaac, Olivia; Odell, Jere D.On Wikipedia [EN], biographies of scientists must meet the criteria for general notability, notability for people, notability for authors, or notability for academics. These criteria require significant coverage in independent, reliable, secondary sources and/or sourced evidence that the person has contributed to changing the field or research or the genre of creative work. Biographies on Wikipedia are assigned a Wikidata entry and these biographies often include a footer linking to other “Authority control databases.” Along with Wikidata, these databases assign the person a persistent identifier (PID). These PIDs may predate the person’s notability and the creation date of their Wikipedia entry. Likewise, as with Wikidata, many of these PIDs have a lower bar for “notability” or rely on different concepts for authority. In some cases, such as ORCID (Open Researcher and Contributor ID), the PID may only be created by the person themselves. Although PIDs may not be evidence of notability, one might assume that a person with PIDs would be on track for meeting the English Wikipedia criteria for notability. This exploratory study, looks at a short list of notable and likely notable scientists (recipients and finalists of the Indianapolis Prize) to identify the prevalence of three PIDs (Wikidata, LCN, and ORCID). We seek to better understand the role of PIDs in the development of a scientist’s public reputation. Do the prevalence of these identifiers precede the creation of Wikipedia entries? Do these identifiers multiply after Wikipedia entries are created? Do PIDs matter for Wikipedia?Item Millennialism and the Coming Tyranid Invasion: The Doomsday Beliefs of the Genestealer Cults(2025-09-27) Maixner, GaryReligious themes and the fanaticism that they bring are some of the most important to the universe of Warhammer 40K. While the Imperium of Man is steadfastly dedicated to the worship of the God Emperor, the Genestealer Cults thrive in the cracks of this mainstream religion, as a group of disorientated commoners. One defining element of the Genestealers is their belief in the “Day of Ascension,” a prophesied event, where, according to their beliefs, their planet and themselves will be transformed into a utopia with the arrival of the “Star Children.” This belief in a coming doomsday event is a hallmark of popular depictions of new Religious Movements, with a long history in western mysticism, and modern cult activity. This presentation will examine the millennialism beliefs of the Genestealer Cults, comparing them to Norman Cohn’s millennialist work and real world examples of New Religious Movements.